Slightly later than planned (due mostly to the holiday season and people's lives away from SN being hectic) the next bunch of updates for the site is ready to go. It's a bumper crop!
We have some further changes to the moderation system. As before, this is certainly not the end of changes in this area, rather another step along the road of improvement. We will be watching how the changes affect moderation usage with a view to further improvements.
There's also a number of more general improvements and bug fixes.
All being well these changes should go live around 03:00 26th January UTC. So no need for alarm if there's some minor site disruption at that point. Changes went live at approximately 22:00 31st January UTC.
As always, feedback will be welcome once this deployed.
A major thanks to TheMightyBuzzard for the bulk of the work, paulej72 for sanity checking and martyb for testing/QA.
More details after the break....
Admin Note: it looks like we found a late breaking bug that is a blocker for this update. Spam mods are not showing up to the admins with the proper unmodding options. We will update when we find the issue. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next day or so.
General Changes
An honourable mention...
New functionality that didn't quite make it into the final cut for this update, but is available for testing on our dev environment.
As always, feedback will be welcome once this deployed.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 25 2015, @09:53PM
Yes, we're terrible. Oh, wait, it was your fellow users [soylentnews.org] who said please go ahead and do it. Do please continue trolling though. It ensures that nobody will mistakenly take you seriously. You really should have posted once or twice and left it at that if you wanted to incite actual dissent.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 01 2015, @02:20AM
You are getting punked by an AC. You are incapable of stating the goal and the metric to measure the progress for this little hobby horse of yours. You don't even know why you're tweaking the modding system. Figure that out first before fiddling with it.